# salus
## Esperanto
### Verb

salus
* conditional of sali

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *salūts, from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole, completed”).
From PIE: Faliscan 𐌔𐌀𐌋𐌖𐌄𐌔 (salues) and doublet of salvus.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsa.luːs/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪uːs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsa.lus/, [ˈsäːlus]

### Noun

salūs f (genitive salūtis); third declension
* safety; security
    Synonyms: sēcūritās, impūnitās
* health, well-being, welfare
    Synonyms: sānitās, valētūdō
    Antonyms: aegritūdō, morbus, malum, pestis, incommodum
    Salus populi suprema lex esto ― let the welfare of the people be the supreme law
* salvation, deliverance
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.354:Ūna salūs victīs: nūllam spērāre salūtem.The only salvation for the conquered: for no one to hope for salvation. (In other words, a sense of impending doom can impel bold actions, which in turn could unexpectedly alter the presumed outcome.)
* greeting, salutation

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* prō salūte Imperātōris
* salūber
* salūbritās
* salūbriter
* salūtābundus
* salūtāris
* salūtātiō
* salūtātor
* salūtātōrius
* salūtātrīx
* salūtifer
* salūtiger
* salūtō

#### Related terms

* salvē
* salveō
* salvus

#### Descendants

* Asturian: salú
* Catalan: salut
* French: salut
* Friulian: salût
* Italian: salute
* Norman: salut
* Old Galician-Portuguese: saude
** Galician: saúde
** Portuguese: saúde
* Piedmontese: salute
* Romanian: sărut, salut (borrowing)
* Sardinian: saludu, saluru, salutu
* Spanish: salud

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “salvus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 537

### Further reading

* “salus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “salus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* salus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* salus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to sacrifice oneself for one's country: se morti offerre pro salute patriae a man's life is at stake, is in very great danger: salus, caput, vita alicuius agitur, periclitatur, in discrimine est or versatur to take measures for one's safety; to look after one's own interests: saluti suae consulere, prospicere after mutual greeting: salute data (accepta) redditaque to further the common weal: saluti rei publicae non deesse to devote one's every thought to the state's welfare: omnes curas in rei publicae salute defigere (Phil. 14. 5. 13) (ambiguous) to risk one's life: salutem, vitam suam in discrimen offerre (not exponere) (ambiguous) to bring aid to; to rescue: auxilium, opem, salutem ferre alicui (ambiguous) to deliver, rescue a person: salutem alicui afferre (ambiguous) to effect a person's deliverance: salutem expedire (ambiguous) to bless (curse) a person: precari alicui bene (male) or omnia bona (mala), salutem (ambiguous) I drink your health: propīno tibi hoc (poculum, salutem) (ambiguous) to greet a person: salutem alicui dicere, impertire, nuntiare (ambiguous) Cicero sends cordial greetings to Atticus: Cicero Attico S.D.P. (salutem dicit plurimam) (ambiguous) my best wishes for your welfare: tibi plurimam salutem (ambiguous) remember me to your brother: nuntia fratri tuo salutem verbis meis (Fam. 7. 14) (ambiguous) to add to one's letter good wishes to some one: adscribere alicui salutem (Att. 5. 20. 9) (ambiguous) to devote oneself body and soul to the good of the state: totum et animo et corpore in salutem rei publicae se conferre (ambiguous) to beg for mercy from the conqueror: salutem petere a victore (ambiguous) to seek safety in flight: fuga salutem petere
* “salus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* salus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “salus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray